Cudahy, CA has a F safety grade (22/100) with a violent crime rate of 654 per 100,000, 86% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Cudahy (21,401 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then CA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Cudahy, CA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 86% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cudahy, CA shows violent crime at 654.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,434.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 86% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 386.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 654.2 in 2024 (+69.2%). The highest observed value was 720.0 in 2022 and the lowest 386.5 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Cudahy's 654.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Modesto (655.7), Santa Barbara (648.3), Redding (647.8), Santa Maria (660.6). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
At 654.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cudahy ranks 69 of 458 — above 389 of the 457 other California cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +99.2% against the cohort median of 328.5. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 31.3% of the 447 Part I offenses reported in Cudahy for 2024, against a median of 17.1% across comparable California cities — a gap of 14.2 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 50.5% of reported property offenses in Cudahy, against a cohort median of 69.5%. The remainder is burglary (46) and motor vehicle theft (106). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Cudahy's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Cudahy's 8 active offense types stay diversified (mix index 2,390); larceny-theft still leads at 35%.
Violent offenses are 31% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Cudahy offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 307 | 1434.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 155 | 724.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 106 | 495.3 |
| Burglary | 46 | 214.9 |
| Arson | 2 | 9.3 |
| Violent Crime | 140 | 654.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 96 | 448.6 |
| Robbery | 33 | 154.2 |
| Rape | 7 | 32.7 |
| Murder | 4 | 18.7 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 23,543 | 386.5 | 1270 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 23,062 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 21,807 | 720 | 1366.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 21,594 | 574.2 | 1676.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 21,401 | 654.2 | 1434.5 |
Cudahy Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Cudahy's 447 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the California cities closest to Cudahy in population. Their populations run from 20,969 to 21,980, against 21,401 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Cudahy sits at 654.2/100K violent (grade F); the California cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Cudahy at 654.2/100K violent and 1,434.5/100K property - matched below outside California (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
654.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,434.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Cudahy reported 140 violent crimes and 307 property crimes, for a total of 447 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Cudahy's violent crime rate increased by 13.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 14.4%.
The most common crime type in Cudahy is larceny-theft, accounting for 34.7% of all reported crimes (155 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Cudahy figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Cudahy's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Cudahy, CA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Cudahy is scored in the mid-size municipal band (21,401 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.